US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Hub for converting input from control devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,426, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Hub for converting input from control devices" was invented by Dave Banks (Lake Forest, Calif.), Junjie Lin (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Lunci Hua (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes, in part, a system and method for receiving inputs from control devices of different types, sources, and origins at a mobile device to control a single unified platform in parallel with control devices intended for control of the platform. The system and method include connecting a control device to a mobile device that may communicate, over...